Matthieu Possoz

Tax Managing Associate, Brussels

"I assist clients in daily tax management and on all tax aspects of complex reorganisations. My goal is to provide clients with tailored solutions which are ready to be implemented and which fit clients’ particular businesses"

Overview

Professional experience

Education

Published works

Overview

Practising through Matthieu Possoz SPRL-S with KBO number 0684.870.379.

Matthieu is a Managing Associate in the Brussels tax group with extensive knowledge of Belgian and international tax law (including corporate income tax, VAT and registration duties), with particular emphasis on domestic and cross-border transactions and reorganisations, international tax planning, and the structuring of real estate transactions. His practice also covers tax audit and tax litigation work.

Matthieu is also Professor of corporate income tax at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Fiscales (ESSF-ICHEC), lecturer for the European Commission and for the Louvain School of Management (LSM-UCL) and assistant in tax law at the University of Louvain (UCL)

Work highlight

Matthieu has advised and represented clients in a broad range of industries. His recent experience includes:

the tax treatment of investment funds both at the level of the fund and of the investors

the creation of one of the first FIIS (i.e. Belgian REITS) in Belgium

the tax aspects of public M&A transactions

the issuance of Tier 1 and Tier 2 financial instruments for financial institutions

the VAT analysis of an e-commerce supply chain of a multinational company

the tax aspects of day-to-day operations of Belgian (listed) companies

assisting clients in the framework of tax audits/tax litigations

Professional experience

Matthieu has been a Managing Associate in the Tax group since May 2019. He joined Linklaters in 2016.

Education

Matthieu holds a master’s in law as well as a master’s in philosophy from the University of Louvain and a master’s in tax law from the Université libre de Bruxelles.